Friday, July 9, 2010

Ayukawa Madoka Maxfactory 1/7 Kit

A while ago i did my first figure kit. Ayukawa from my all-time favorite animu show Kimagure Orange Road :)Got the kit from an ebay Thai caster - so i didn't expect much in casting quality, but it actually was quite decent.

The details in the cast were pretty good and the part fit was okay'ish. It was mainly the skirt that needed hot water rebending, an easy fix.Where it got tricky was the consistency of the resin. It was REALLY hard and a bit brittle for the thin parts while at the same time it had a bit of a rubbery feel to it. Weird stuff. Also it smelled a bit like strawberry chewing gum.All in all it was pretty workable thou.I used neodym magnets for the head/hair connection, otherwise i used brass pins.

Here you can see some parts that broke of while i was sanding. Fixed it with MORI MORI putty, which worked excellent for this.

primer! & after a coat of white it was masking time

Parts painted minus the face:

First I tried to airbrush the eyes with some insane masking, but it didn't work out well so I went with handpainting. Used the scan of a close up cel of Madoka as a sample and painted with enamel and acrylic paint with a tiny 00000 brush. Worked pretty good actually and wasn't that hard.